yea the rubber cement was my idea... i have been running on those type of wheels for a while now.. the nice thing about it is that if the rubber cement gets funky you can just rub it off and put on a new coat.. kinda like getting a fresh set of rubber.. im liking your mod a lot. great job.. i guess all i have to say about muscle machines is that there are different size wheels. i beleive the cartoon seris has the massive wheels, all of the others pretty much have the same size rear wheel.. you can tell the cartoon by the package, also the cars usually are lifted in the rear of the car with tiny wheels in the front. i used the massive ones on the rear of my car, and the normal on the front.

for moounting the body. I used the antenna hose from my 1/10 rc and cut off a little piece and super glued it to the chassis between the batteries.. (internal dual cell). i put a hole in the top of my beatle body to accomidate this post.. and one screw. i know this wouldnt be the prefered method. im still working on getting a way other than screwing through the body, because i think the screws kinda suck when showing.but i painted mine so its not very noticable... the only other easy way i could think about would be a velcro attachment. but once again i dont like velcro to much. Im looking forward to seeing how you raise the tabs. please post pics when you do. heres a pic of mine...

my next mod is gonig to be simmilar to yours. although im using a slot car, and 4 cells. so i will probablly have to do the laymans mod too.. i have tested out the motor with 4 cells and there is unbelieveable torque, and plenty of speed. fastest ive seen so far. i just need to find someone with a slot car track and a voltmeter, so i can find out how much voltage they get at full throttle...

Ya, great idea on the rubber cement Spanky. Can you tell me anything else about the latex molding compound you mentioned in that post?

Nice idea on the mounting, though the screw does make it a hassle. I haven't decided quite how I'm going to alter the tabs yet. One way would be to cut the old ones off and try supergluing them higher on the body, but I'm not sure if I can get it quite high enough. Another way I'm considering would be to use two pieces of springy metal, fashioned into a sort of "Z" shape. The flat, bottom part would be fastened to the old tab. The flat top part would be trimmed to the same size as a normal tab; to put the body on you'd just push in the two metal pieces slightly and pop the tab part into the slot on the body. I think that would be pretty durable and hopefully easy to change out, but I'll have to measure everything carefully first.

Can you post pics of the slot car motor you're talking about? Do you think it will fit in a bit chassis? What are the specs (voltage, RPM, etc.)? I think my wheel mod is not bad (I've seen several better on this site), but the neatest thing I did with this mod is the huge motor. I'm curious if anyone else has found other non bit-size motors to use in their cars.

ok, heres that slot car. im not sure what the rpm's are but i know that this thing fly's.. like ive said ive only tested it with 4 cells. a 9v would be ideal but keeping the pcb from frying would be hard to do..

the yellow body is for the slot car. and i have two bits by it. i microsizer and one prescious, with a shen s2000 cap(painted windows :mad: )

http://custombitbodys.home.attbi.com...omparasion.jpg

i think a better way of mounting the body would be to attach small tubes like shown in the above pic to both the body and chassis, and then use something like small finishing nails to fit in the hose to hold them together... but i think your idea of the metal Z sounds even better.

the latex im using is a mold maker latex. the kind you would brush on something to make an impression. the should have it at a craft store. rubber cememt would probably work better though.. after 2 runs the latex is coming off the tires..

How big are those batteries compared to a bit?

wtf? My posts are before yours, even though you posted them like a day ago... Weird.

hehehe, i just found myself a BFM.... (big flippin motor) it also came with two 1/2AA 300mah batteries.. i destroyed a electric toothbrush that i found under the sink. im not suer if the batteries are good... im gonna try charging them... but the motor has more torque with 2 batteries than any other motor that i have ever saw. now i just have to get some gears that will work on it... im thinking about using this with the rear axle of the slot car... so that i can put the motor in the middle to front.. and then put one battrey in the front and one in the rear.. that would even out the weight.

btw the motor is just a tad to big to fit inside the chassis right now..

You can sorta see the comparison in one of the pics, but the closest thing I could compare it to is the rear wheel of a bit. The narrow end of the battery is about the same diameter; the flared end is about a millimeter wider. The thickness is about a half millimeter wider than the rear bit wheel. I don't have a ruler handy, so I couldn't tell you the exact dimensions. They're considerably larger than the button cells in the Layman's mod, but they are 80mAh instead of 40mAh.

Actually, I was talking to Spanky to see what size his 1/2 AA batterys were.... But my post got all messed up. :confused:

how big are they? well 2 of them equals 1 AA battery.. so.. thats about how big they are...

Pics Updated
 

I finally got a new digital camera, so I replaced several of the tiny, blurry pics with some higher-res ones. I still cropped and compressed them to save download time though. I hope these will show the details of the mod better. Check them out back on the first page. You may have to hit "Reload" in your browser to get the new ones to show up.

Actofgod-did you get those 70mah buttons at the same site as the 40mah for the layman's? If not could you provide the link. Thanks.

we seriously need a movie
 

i wanna see that big baby in action.

Oops, I just noticed that I've been saying 70mAh when the batteries are actually 80mAh each. Yes, I did get a six-pack of these from the same site as the other button cell battery packs, allelectronics.com, but they no longer list them on their web site.

They are Varta V80H button cells, if you'd like some. It's a pretty common battery. Just doing a quick search on yahoo, I found that mouser.com has them in a handy 3-pack, shrink wrapped and with soldering tabs for $5.66, though I don't know about shipping since I haven't ordered from them before. If you're comfortable doing a standard dual cell mod, you should have no problem with this one either.

As for the video.. I'll see what I can do :)

Hummer Body
 

Finally got an appropriate body for this baby, a Hummer H1 body from a Cannonball clone. It looked ridiculous with the original, tiny tires, but it's pretty sweet now. I'll need to dremel just a little extra wheel clearance in the front, but this one already has much more clearance than most.

Here are a few pics.

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